Hello @David30125243i5sb,
Sorry to hear about your experience. Are you using Illustrator on a Windows computer? If yes, kindly try performing a clean reinstallation of the GPU drivers (Intel / NVIDIA / AMD) and setting the Graphics Preference to High-Performance for Illustrator (https://adobe.ly/45GCnDg) to see if it helps.
If you're on a macOS computer, try running Illustrator under a different administrator account (Windows / macOS) and share your observations.
Also, kindly check if Illustrator only behaves this way with some files. If yes, kindly share a public link to a sample file after uploading it to Dropbox/Google Drive/etc. so we can check it on our end.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Anubhav